What type of sgian Dubh is worn in the Highlands?

[Jock Scot]

Correct me if I'm wrong, Jock, but the impression I got during various visits to Scotland was that very few Scots own kilts, but it's common for Scots to wear hired kilts to weddings.

Several homes I visted had wedding photos displayed and usually the men were in kilts. I was told that the kilts were hired.

A beautiful sgian there, Jock!

As far as sgian styles, there have long been staghorn sginean for Day Dress and carved black wood sginean with silver fitments for Evening Dress.

Officers and pipers in the army wore black sginean with silver or gilt fitments.

Nowadays, here in the USA, it has become problematic wearing sginean because so many places ban weapons of any sort, and many places have metal detectors. The Pipe Band I play in has banned them.

OCR
I was thinking about Kilt hire as I was typing my first post in this thread and in consultation with others(lowland Scots) who are staying with us, we decided that whilst kilt hire is indeed on the up within Scotland, it is still not as common as many might think. But I stand to be corrected should good evidence be available.

The day wear and evening wear SD's ideas are in my experience, more of a theoretical idea for new kilt wearers who are doing things by the kilt attire merchants book . If you have one good SD and it fills both places satisfactorily, why have two?

Yes the SD in my picture has silver gilt fittings.

The legal aspect to the carrying knives within the UK is interesting. Scotland has for quite some time had an almost a zero tolerance to knives in public places and has had some reasonable success in reducing knife crime. England in particular and I think Wales( I am not sure about Northern Ireland) has a real problem with knife crime at present and has fallen in line----more or less -----with Scotland's tactics.

However, the carrying of a SD is perfectly legal(different laws) when worn sensibly with National Attire North and South of the border.